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The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
STEVEN D. LEVITT Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.
DOUG DUCEY The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO It may seem counter-intuitive, but aerobic exercise is an excellent way to counter fatigue.
DR SARAH JARVIS Our study challenges that conventional wisdom.
DR. FARR CURLIN![]()
Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
CHRISTOPHER REEVE Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have...
THERESE FOWLER Knowledge if churned like milk, results in the butter of wisdom.
RAJEN JANI Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.
FRED PROPP JR. The conventional wisdom is that Republicans trump Democrats when it comes to involvement in religion...
MURRAY EDELMAN![]()
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something...
GEORGE WASHINGTON BURNAP![]()
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
SAM WALTON Conventional wisdom is you don't need too many bond funds,
ERIC JACOBSON Conventional wisdom holds that investors should hold bonds in tax-protected vehicles like IRAs and s...
CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Contrary to conventional wisdom, it is not always advantageous to engage in thorough conscious delib...
AP DIJKSTERHUIS![]()
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, six...
JONATHAN STROUD We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, ba...
FRANK NEWPORT I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
TIMOTHY WHITE![]()
When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn mo...
MAYIM BIALIK![]()
The first thought is often the best.
- Bishop Joseph Butler,
BISHOP JOSEPH BUTLER![]()
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have ...
PAUL RYAN Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of...
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON![]()
If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
LAO TZU Reject the religious labels and accept the only label that matters “Born Again
JOHN M SHEEHAN![]()
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
STEVE ALBINI I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooki...
ZARIN MEHTA There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thi...
JOE VIGIL I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.
ELIZABETH REASER![]()
Until there are tangible metrics for quantifying the real value of a token's utility, the gap be...
WILLIAM MOUGAYAR![]()
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.
MICHAEL HUTCHENCE The conventional wisdom was that Katrina was catalytic to these attitudes about poverty. But these a...
CELINDA LAKE The conventional wisdom was that Katrina was catalytic to these attitudes about poverty, ... But the...
CELINDA LAKE There is nothing wrong to be possessive but it is not good to have obsession for something.Obsession...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA![]()
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often ten...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ![]()
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often ten...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ![]()
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is...
BARRY RITHOLTZ![]()
I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
PETER JENNINGS I think it's counter to the mission of the public schools to run the (home-school) programs.
GARY PETERSON![]()
Either we are running ‘from’ what we fear, or running ‘to’ what we fear. The former is a cho...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional ec...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
JOSEPH STIGLITZ I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidanc...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an ap...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into th...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of th...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
JOSEPH STIGLITZ Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquir...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ One needs to find innovative ways to transfer and absorb risks better within Asia, better ways of ma...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ Asia has become the source of finance, the source of savings. It now has the human capital to manage...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ An example might be, when the owner of the firm knows more than the shareholders.
JOSEPH STIGLITZ We did not have to fight this war, and we did not have to go to war when we did. We could have waite...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ The question is whether some of the fears of last year will be realized this year. There is strong r...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.
JOSEPH STIGLITZ International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as ...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it mad...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ The question is whether it'll be a stable country, will it be a country in which a diversity of view...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ So the theory asks, how can shareholders ascertain what the firm's real prospects are when they have...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ Elderly people remember when they could go to the movie for a nickel or a quarter,
JOSEPH STIGLITZ Asia has become the source of finance, the source of savings. It now has the human capital to manage...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ![]()
Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you ...
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MS.CANDY These results illustrate why it's often risky to rely on 'average' numbers, which are too often the ...
DALLAS SALISBURY People are not as rational as we would like them to be. I'm happy we got these results, because I be...
CAMELIA KUHNEN If I were to use outdoor for Coke, I would do the exact opposite. I would run 19th century billboard...
JACK TROUT Perception starts to beat reality at a certain time. [The show] challenges conventional wisdom and r...
BRIAN KENNY For students, it will seem like any other residence hall. They are going to be run by our department...
ALICIA BROWNE Reality is like a chameleon, it often yields the results that please the scientists.
DR HITESH C SHETH![]()
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and ...
LAURA MARLING![]()
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in ano...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON![]()
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often become the height of wisdom in anot...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Conventional wisdom, it's an enemy at a time like this. In media today, I don't think there is a sin...
BETH COMSTOCK![]()
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be ...
NICK CLOONEY![]()
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and ...
FREEMAN DYSON [Weber seemed to buck conventional wisdom when comparing display power draws.] Everyone knows that L...
LARRY WEBER I like down-to-earth people.
AMOS LEE![]()
The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN![]()
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence ...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH There is often times a confusion of things, of particles, of the concepts considered essential whenc...
MARIANA FULGER![]()
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the...
JOHN STUART MILL![]()
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the...
JOHN STUART MILL![]()
My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
ABHIJIT NASKAR People like, George Soros, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sax, Dean...
KEITH ELLISON![]()
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling ...
WILL SELF![]()
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; ...
THOMAS CARLYLE![]()
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; ...
THOMAS CARLYLE We have been citing improving execution as a key driver of earnings growth while conventional wisdom...
CINDY SHAW
STEVEN D. LEVITT Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.
DOUG DUCEY The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO It may seem counter-intuitive, but aerobic exercise is an excellent way to counter fatigue.
DR SARAH JARVIS Our study challenges that conventional wisdom.
DR. FARR CURLIN
Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. CHRISTOPHER REEVE Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have...
THERESE FOWLER Knowledge if churned like milk, results in the butter of wisdom.
RAJEN JANI Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.
FRED PROPP JR. The conventional wisdom is that Republicans trump Democrats when it comes to involvement in religion...
MURRAY EDELMAN
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something... GEORGE WASHINGTON BURNAP
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. SAM WALTON Conventional wisdom is you don't need too many bond funds,
ERIC JACOBSON Conventional wisdom holds that investors should hold bonds in tax-protected vehicles like IRAs and s...
CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Contrary to conventional wisdom, it is not always advantageous to engage in thorough conscious delib...
AP DIJKSTERHUIS
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, six... JONATHAN STROUD We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, ba...
FRANK NEWPORT I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
TIMOTHY WHITE
When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn mo... MAYIM BIALIK
The first thought is often the best.
- Bishop Joseph Butler, BISHOP JOSEPH BUTLER
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have ... PAUL RYAN Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of...
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it. LAO TZU Reject the religious labels and accept the only label that matters “Born Again
JOHN M SHEEHAN
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. STEVE ALBINI I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooki...
ZARIN MEHTA There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thi...
JOE VIGIL I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.
ELIZABETH REASER
Until there are tangible metrics for quantifying the real value of a token's utility, the gap be... WILLIAM MOUGAYAR
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.
MICHAEL HUTCHENCE The conventional wisdom was that Katrina was catalytic to these attitudes about poverty. But these a...
CELINDA LAKE The conventional wisdom was that Katrina was catalytic to these attitudes about poverty, ... But the...
CELINDA LAKE There is nothing wrong to be possessive but it is not good to have obsession for something.Obsession...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often ten... CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often ten... KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is... BARRY RITHOLTZ
I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. PETER JENNINGS I think it's counter to the mission of the public schools to run the (home-school) programs.
GARY PETERSON
Either we are running ‘from’ what we fear, or running ‘to’ what we fear. The former is a cho... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional ec...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
JOSEPH STIGLITZ I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidanc...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an ap...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into th...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of th...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
JOSEPH STIGLITZ Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquir...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ One needs to find innovative ways to transfer and absorb risks better within Asia, better ways of ma...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ Asia has become the source of finance, the source of savings. It now has the human capital to manage...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ An example might be, when the owner of the firm knows more than the shareholders.
JOSEPH STIGLITZ We did not have to fight this war, and we did not have to go to war when we did. We could have waite...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ The question is whether some of the fears of last year will be realized this year. There is strong r...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.
JOSEPH STIGLITZ International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as ...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it mad...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ The question is whether it'll be a stable country, will it be a country in which a diversity of view...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ So the theory asks, how can shareholders ascertain what the firm's real prospects are when they have...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ Elderly people remember when they could go to the movie for a nickel or a quarter,
JOSEPH STIGLITZ Asia has become the source of finance, the source of savings. It now has the human capital to manage...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ
Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you ... LEE CHILD أحياناً نقود أنفسنا للطريق المهلك علماً بذلك .. ليس رغب�...
MS.CANDY These results illustrate why it's often risky to rely on 'average' numbers, which are too often the ...
DALLAS SALISBURY People are not as rational as we would like them to be. I'm happy we got these results, because I be...
CAMELIA KUHNEN If I were to use outdoor for Coke, I would do the exact opposite. I would run 19th century billboard...
JACK TROUT Perception starts to beat reality at a certain time. [The show] challenges conventional wisdom and r...
BRIAN KENNY For students, it will seem like any other residence hall. They are going to be run by our department...
ALICIA BROWNE Reality is like a chameleon, it often yields the results that please the scientists.
DR HITESH C SHETH
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and ... LAURA MARLING
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in ano... ADLAI E. STEVENSON
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often become the height of wisdom in anot... ADLAI E. STEVENSON Conventional wisdom, it's an enemy at a time like this. In media today, I don't think there is a sin...
BETH COMSTOCK
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be ... NICK CLOONEY
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and ... FREEMAN DYSON [Weber seemed to buck conventional wisdom when comparing display power draws.] Everyone knows that L...
LARRY WEBER I like down-to-earth people.
AMOS LEE
The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate. BARBARA W. TUCHMAN
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence ... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH There is often times a confusion of things, of particles, of the concepts considered essential whenc...
MARIANA FULGER
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the... JOHN STUART MILL
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the... JOHN STUART MILL
My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society. ABHIJIT NASKAR People like, George Soros, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sax, Dean...
KEITH ELLISON
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling ... WILL SELF
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; ... THOMAS CARLYLE
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; ... THOMAS CARLYLE We have been citing improving execution as a key driver of earnings growth while conventional wisdom...
CINDY SHAW
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. 
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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on h... 
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Justice is the truth in action. 
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The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives. 
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to
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The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
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But th... 
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. 
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. 
This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls i... 
I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed. 
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Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered ... 
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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk maki... 
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We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark... 
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to... 
We always plan too much and always think too little. 
Perfection is the child of time. 
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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its fou... 
Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse. 